The best way to ensure environmental protection is to organize rational use of all types of natural resources: land, soil, mineral resources, forests, other vegetation, surface and groundwater, wildlife objects, protection of atmospheric air and near-Earth space, with the help of law and wide public involvement. This monograph is the result of a discussion of environmental protection issues in the framework of the International Summer School, held at the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation «The preservation of the environment: the opportunities of society, the possibilities of law» (August–September 2018, Moscow, Russia), which was held with the participation of the German academic exchange service (DAAD). For a wide range of readers, researchers, teachers, students, graduate students.

В статье кратко изложено содержание основных докладов, представленных на III Международном конгрессе конституционного правосудия «Конституция и правосудие в начале XXI века», который проходил 10-13 октября 2017 г. в г.Болонья (Италия).Цель статьи -показать наличие общих тем для исследований, которые вызывают интерес как у представителей российской правовой науки, так и у зарубежных ученых.Основными вопросами, вызвавшими наиболее оживленные дискуссии среди участников Конгресса, стали: влияние транснациональных процессов на национальные правовые системы; реакция систем правосудия на вызовы современного мира; новые формы и институты защиты прав человека и гражданина; эволюция социальных, экономических и гражданских прав; коррупция и способы ее преодоления; общие тенденции развития конституционного и иных видов контроля

Presented article is the result of study of the issues of legal regulation of forest exploitation in the Russian Federation made by the author. The work substantiates the position according to which the use of forests is a form of realization of the subjective rights of forest management. Forests are the main natural resources of Russia and of the world. Despite the fact that the forests are renewable natural resource, their protection from damage and destruction during use is one of the most important tasks of the forest law. The author concludes that taking into account features of object of legal regulation, in the process of implementation of right for the forest management responsibilities of the right holder are essential. The article also examines the main types of forest use envisaged by the forest legislation of the Russian Federation, as well as legal problems arising in the implementation of forest management by different actors of economic and other activities. The author analyzes a number of subordinate normative legal acts and court decisions to identify legal uncertainties and gaps in the forestry law.